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Jew's harp (susap)

about 1925
Object Place: Papua New Guinea

Medium/Technique Bamboo
Dimensions Length 23.4 cm, width 2.8 cm, depth 0.9 cm (Length 9 3/16 in., width 1 1/8 in., depth 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number1984.286
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical instrumentsIdiophones

DescriptionFlat carrot-shaped piece of dark bamboo. Two slender arms and central tongue. Hole, for cord, at wide end.
InscriptionsIn ink at narrow end: 108-0
Provenance1984, sold by Douglas Deihl, Northampton, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1984)